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Quotes by Mexican Authors
"I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue."
"When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight."
"For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made."
"One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language."
"Without economic growth and job creation in Mexico, we won't be able to confront the migratory phenomenon."
"I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times."
"I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing."
"Every decision that you make you have to be incredible congruent. It doesn't mean that you have to starve. If you need money, you do something that gives you money, that's normal."
"Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether."
"We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is."
"What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others."
"Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first."
"Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you."
"The most enjoyable part of my career is singing live."
"I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care."
"I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her."
"Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?"
"After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year."
"He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest."
"I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women."
"Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country."
"We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours."
"I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her."
"I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame."
"Well, I mean, you have an emotion, you want to express it. You don't just look in the camera and do it. You want to hide from the embarrassment of your brother saying you're not allowed to come into my town."
"Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror."
"On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience."
"And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican."
"Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand."
"I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art."
"I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news."
"The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration."
"In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries."
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